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Graphic: Russian Airborne SP Artillery Battery
🕑 Added 2022-04-16 04:44:34 +0000 UTCNew graphic of the Russian Airborne Self-Propelled Artillery Battery, equipped with 2S9 Nona-S self-propelled mortars. These are the main artillery for Airborne and Air Assault Regiments (as an 18-gun battalion, 3 batteries), possibly for Airborne Battalions part of Air Assault Brigades (1 battery), and are part of the Airborne divisional artillery (Artillery Regiments). The VDV also make use of D-30 towed 122mm howitzers in brigade and divisional artilleries.
The structure overall is very similar to a standard self-propelled artillery battery, except with the air droppable Nona-S instead of Msta/Akatsiya/Gvozdika howitzers and 1V119 artillery command vehicles based on BTR-D airborne APC rather than MT-LBu variants. The HQ includes a command vehicle for the Battery Commander (typically primary forward observer in a battery, setting up a command outpost) and Senior Battery Officer (stays with the battery and leads the FDC). The Battery Commander is supported by scouts while the Senior Battery Officer is supported by a fire calculator. The rest of the HQ is more rear echelon oriented, like the Senior Technician, Starshina, and Medical NCO.
The battery has two firing platoons, each with 3 mortars, and is supported by an ammunition section with 3 trucks.
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@Trey Russia has a very different take one NCOs than the US. The TLDR is all volunteer personal start as an NCO, where as conscripts are always E-1s. Small unit leadership is done by officers. Combat units do not include conscripts so the 'OR' troops in this graphic are all NCOs (except maybe the ammo drivers but probably not as this is an airborne unit). If you want to learn more, there's a good book called "The Russian Way of War", which is freely available online.
Does the Russian military have a developed NCO corp or do the officers plan, lead, and manage everything?
